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    A Bet­ter Life for Their Chil­dren: Julius Rosen­wald, Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America
    Andrew Feil­er
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    The Sis­ters of Auschwitz: The True Sto­ry of Two Jew­ish Sis­ters’ Resis­tance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
    Rox­ane van Iperen
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    In the Midst of Civ­i­lized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918 – 1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
    Jef­frey Veidlinger
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    Bil­ly Wilder on Assign­ment: Dis­patch­es from Weimar Berlin and Inter­war Vienna
    Noah Isen­berg
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    The Unex­pect­ed Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Tak­ing Down Some of the World’s Most Noto­ri­ous Terrorists
    Tra­cy Walder
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    The Nine: The True Sto­ry of a Band of Women Who Sur­vived the Worst of Nazi Germany
    Gwen Strauss
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    Broke in Amer­i­ca: See­ing, Under­stand­ing and End­ing US Poverty
    Joanne Gold­blum
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    Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodi­gies to Late Bloomers
    Clau­dia Kalb
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    Twelve Tribes: Promise and Per­il in the New Israel
    Ethan Michaeli
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    Irma’s Pass­port: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Lega­cy of Courage
    Cather­ine Ehrlich
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    The Note Through the Wire: The Incred­i­ble True Sto­ry of a Pris­on­er of War and a Resis­tance Heroine
    Doug Gold
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    Com­pet­ing With Idiots: Her­man and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
    Nick Davis
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    The His­to­ry of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle
    Wayne Fed­er­man
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    What Does the Con­sti­tu­tion Say?: A Kid’s Guide to How Our Democ­ra­cy Works
    Ben Shee­han
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    Jew­ish Pride: Rebuild­ing a People
    Ben M. Freeman
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    The Out­lier: The Unfin­ished Pres­i­den­cy of Jim­my Carter
    Kai Bird
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